Devastating photos were released of a horrified police officer lifting the baby girl from the toilet.
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As of Monday night, she was in a stable condition, the newspaper said.
“The baby’s head was pointing downwards and her whole body had already fallen into the drain”.
Beijing police are searching for the mother of a newborn baby girl who was apparently abandoned in a public toilet on Sunday.
“I am probably the first one to hold this child”, Qian told the TV station in a later interview.
Blood around the lavatory bowl and the fact that her parents did not report her trapped indicated that she had been born in the toilet and abandoned there, it said, adding that police were trying to identify her parents.
The baby has been taken to Beijing hospital and does not appear to have any injuries.
Unmarried mothers in China sometimes abandon newborns because of social stigma associated with out-of-wedlock births.
It said police saw the child’s feet in the toilet pipe and that a policeman pulled her out.
The abandoned child is recovering in hospital after being found in a pipe in a public convenience in western Beijing. Couples who have more than one baby face serious fines.
An estimated 10,000 unwanted children are abandoned in China every year, Reuters reported in 2014.
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In May 2013, a newborn baby in the eastern province of Zhejiang survived after being dropped down a toilet by his mother.
